brian_d_foy writes "Komodo 4.0 now allows XPI extensions, the same thing that Firefox has. Create something cool for the Komodo 4.0 Extensibility Challenge and you could win some money or prizes. The contest is open until April 1 (no, really), and you can use the 21-day free preview of Komodo to do it.

ActiveState will go through the entries and put the best on their website to let the community vote on the one they like the best. They'll announce the results at RailsConf 2007 (but that doesn't mean you have to be a Ruby guy to win)."

brian_d_foy writes "Are you a student who wants to hack Perl over your summer break? Let Google give you a big bag of money to do it by participating in their third Summer of Code! Last year, students got $4,500 for their work. This year that could be you.

The application period begins on March 14 and ends on March 24. Coding runs from May 28 to August 20.

Perl 6 summary, 11-17 Feb, 2007

Remember that the European Perl Hackathon will be held next weekend, from 2-4 March, 2007 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Registration is open until Thursday, 1 March. For more information, please look at the hackathon website.

Parrot 0.4.9 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion or SVK on the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.

Perl Critic on Perlcast

Perlcast is back with an interview with Jeffrey Thalhammer, the creator and maintainer of Perl Critic, a static source code analyzer for Perl written in Perl. In the interview Jeffrey talks about what Perl Critic is, why he created it, and where he sees the system going.